Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels.A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger... More

Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.

Iconic Australian shipping disaster

Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'.Only edition: the harrowing tale of the... More

Folio, 6 pages plus integral blank; folded to docket size with manuscript annotation "Admiralty New Instructions relating to Surgeons"A scarce and desirable relic of eighteenth-century naval life: an official printed order from the Admiralty concerning... More

Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; CAMPHEL issue with 'B' faintly visible on 'H', about uncirculated, a few minor blemishes to the rims.An excellent medal... More

Bifolium; franked.Original newspaper containing exciting news of Anson's buccaneering windfall: 'that Commodore Anson has taken eight rich Prizes, and after ravaging the Coast, departed about the middle of April for the East Indies; that he has two Ships with him... More

Octavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking.The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated... More

Quarto, 64 pp.; a very good unopened copy in the original grey titling wrappers.Publication commemorating the inauguration of the statue erected to honour the eminent French physicist and astronomer François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853). The bronze... More

Paris: Langlume, 1840. Single sheet measuring 305 x 222 mm., wove paper, lithograph.Confronting image of a Port Jackson Aborigine, lithographed after a sketch by Jacques Arago, official artist of the expedition commanded by Louis de Freycinet. This portrait is stylistically similar to the work of Arago's predecessor Nicolas Petit... More

Large octavo, with a portrait frontispiece, lithographs and in-text illustrations; original gilt decorated full calf.One of the reduced single-volume editions of Arago's classic account. There were numerous editions of his narrative: this particular one is not recorded by Ferguson (although a...... More

Four volumes, octavo, with 60 lithograph plates (six folding); later binding of quarter dark green morocco.A fine set of the substantially changed version of Arago's classic account of the French circumnavigation in the Uranie under the command of... More

Large octavo, 15 plates, untrimmed with an early library stamp on the title-page; a handsome copy in polished half calf, spine banded and gilt.Fine copy of this unusual addition to his voyage account by the prolific and eccentric Arago, which includes... More

The "Spanish Hakluyt" Herrera's annotated copy of Argensola's classic work on the western Pacific

Small folio, pp. [12], 407 [i.e. 411]; eighteenth-century stiff parchment.A remarkable and very important association copy of this great book, by a figure whose circle of literary colleagues included both Cervantes... More

Engraving, printed upon india paper sheet measuring 180 x 130mm., laid upon larger sheet;.Proof version on india paper, marked "proof" to lower left-hand corner. This portrait is based on the oil painting by Nathaniel Dance now... More

Sheet music, 8 pp. and colour-lithograph cover.A racy tune by the dance composer Charles d'Albert (1809-1886), this rare early sheet music features a particularly appealing coloured lithograph of the clipper Lightning, a vessel... More

Large square folio, with a folding map, three coloured lithograph plates, 33 original silver albumen photographs (283 x 212 mm) mounted on card with printed captions and borders, and two superb panoramas, one of them double-page (240 x.... More

Octavo, large map and chart and eleven plates (most folding), 13 plates in total; contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards.First German edition, preceded only by the very rare Swedish edition of 1777, and followed by London and Paris... More

Octavo, six engraved plates in the first work, and one folding engraved plate by Bauer in the second work; contemporary half calf (restored).One of remarkably few works by Joseph Banks to have appeared in print. Despite... More

Octavo, 32 pp. including the half-title, with a folding plate; with the half-title in "Mackaness" morocco, with the Mackaness bookplate.One of remarkably few works published by Banks, but an apt demonstration of his wide range of scientific interest... More

Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed.In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements... More